Word: stretcher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening kickoff of the second half, Hill's return to the Yale 37 ended with Harvard's Tony Cimmarrusti sprawled out on the Yale Bowl turf. The junior linebacker left the field on a stretcher...
...count showed they were still one short; in case of a tie, House Speaker George Thomas, a Laborite, would have voted for the government. Then came news that changed the balance: Labor M.P. Sir Alfred Broughton, 76, hospitalized after a heart attack, could not make it on a stretcher to vote, while a Tory M.P. whose wife had died said he would come. As the members filed back into the chamber after voting, there was a tense period of anxious suspense until the result was announced: the motion had passed 311 to 310. The Conservative benches erupted into cheers; Thatcher...
...looking for you on the streets next Sunday. Don't worry--I'll bring the stretcher...
Then more shots came from the direction of the embassy. Two men carried a stretcher toward an ambulance. On it was the dead body of an Iranian man, apparently an employee of the embassy; the front of his shirt was soaked with blood from a gunshot wound. All the while, Khomeini's people were trying to clear the area of journalists. "This is bad propaganda for the government," said...
...rescue squad put an emergency dressing on the wound and carried the man to their truck on a stretcher. I stood there watching as the truck drove off and was swallowed up by the swirling snow...